Cruz, Angie
Summary: Tocar la güira le recuerda a Angélica a las personas que ama y extraña, especialmente a su abuelo en la República Dominicana.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SPANISH CRUBennett, Brit
Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BENQuintana, Pilar
Summary: Una novela sobre el fin de la infancia y sus fantasmas. Claudia vive con sus padres en un apartamento invadido por plantas que se estiran para tocarla. Como todas las familias, la suya contiene una crisis, y solo hará falta que algo o alguien llegue a detonarla. Cada quien tiene un punto de quiebre en la infancia, y Claudia, la protagonista de esta historia, narra, desde la expectación y la...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH QUIJimenez, Claire
Summary: "Las Ramírez de Stanten Islan orbitan alrededor de la ausencia. Cuando Ruthy, a los trece años, desapareció sin dejar rastro después de un entrenamiento de atletismo, su familia quedó marcada y deshecha. Una noche, doce años después, Jessica, la hermana mayor, ve en la pantalla de su televisión a una mujer que aparece en Catfight, un reality show subido de tono. Se apresura a decírselo a Nina,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC JIMMandino, Og
Summary: "Tras sufrir la irreparable p rdida de su esposa e hijo en un accidente automovilístico, John Harding, un hombre que se consideraba exitoso hasta ese momento, cae en una profunda depresión. Gracias a un amigo comenzará a dirigir un equipo de beisbol infantil y conocerá a Timothy Noble, un niño de once años, poseedor de una voluntad inquebrantable a pesar de su falta de habilidad. A través de...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Diana 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jourdy, Camille
Summary: "A vibrant tableau of small-town life as seen through the eyes of a woman returning home from Paris. Juliette boards a train from Paris and comes back to her hometown hoping for a low-key visit with family and old friends. What she finds is anything but. Her sister, a caregiver and mother of two, is carrying on an elaborate affair with a man from a costume shop. Her parents, separated, are now...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Bowen Cohen, Emily
Summary: "Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 741.5 BOWSuzuki, Yūto
Summary: "Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! In the third stage of the JCC transfer test, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SAKBowles, David (David O.)
Summary: "México. 1418. Les presentamos al príncipe Acolmiztli. Puma de la gente Acolhua. Heredero al trono de su padre. Mitad Acolhua, mitad Mexica. Cantante. Guerrero. Poeta. Dieciséis años de edad. Y ahora, traicionado. Una conspiración en el palacio, planeada por el letal imperio Tepaneca, mata a su madre y hermanos, pone al ejército de su padre en retirada, y manda al príncipe Acolmiztli a un...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones LQ
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BOWGilbert, Julie
Summary: "With two brothers fighting in the Great War, Gemma Dorgan's life is filled with worries. But when the Spanish Flu hits Philadelphia, the Dorgan family faces their own battle of sorts at home."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GIL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Kurimoto, Kengo
Summary: "Discover the magic of the wilderness in this breathtaking graphic novel reminiscent of a modern-day The Secret Garden. Poppy's mother hasn't been the same since Gran passed away. She stays inside and watches TV, unable to leave the couch. So maybe that's why Poppy has started spending more time outside, taking her dog Pepper for walks around the neighborhood. When Pepper leads Poppy through a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Teer, Samuel
Summary: "Almudena has always wondered about the dad she never met. Now, with her white mother headed on a once-in-a-lifetime trip, she's left alone with her Guatemalan father for an entire summer. Xavier seems happy to see her, but he expects her to live in (and help fix up) his old, broken-down brownstone. And all along, she must navigate the language barrier of his rapid-fire Spanish -- which she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ross, Rebecca (Rebecca J.)
Summary: "Tras permanecer dormidos durante siglos, los dioses vuelven a la guerra... Lo único que la joven periodista Iris Winnow desea es mantener unida a su familia. Con un hermano obligado a luchar en el bando de los dioses y desaparecido del frente de batalla y una madre que se ahoga en su pena, la mejor opción de Iris es obtener el ascenso a columnista del Oath Gazette. Pero cuando las cartas de...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puck
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ROSLehmann, Matthias
Summary: "Karl Kling's story is one of revelations, and these he has addressed in a letter to his daughter, Hella, who had disowned Karl many years ago. Karl's letter is a cri de coeur from a father to a daughter he never really got to know, and he comes clean to her about his failed marriages, his fractured family relations--and his love for men. Taking place between the end of World War II and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Suzuki, Yūto
Summary: "Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He’s now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! As...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SAKStorm, Jen
Summary: "Chelsea is missing, but she's not gone... In this moving graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Reanna grieves the loss of her older sister. Can she find comfort through her family's Ojibwe traditions? It's been a year since Reanna's sister, Chelsea, went missing on her way home from school. Without any idea of what happened, Reanna and her family struggle to find closure. Driven from their home by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press, an imprint of Portage & Main Press 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 STOSuenaga, Yuki
Summary: "As a prominent rookie with a target on her back, Akane takes an opening slot with the goal of clapping back against the veteran futatsume, Rien Konjakuan, who insulted her. While her crisp rakugo performance wows the crowd, Karashi finds something about it worrying... Then, a shocking truth is discovered about Akane's repertoire, leaving her at a huge disadvantage as a zenza. How will Akane...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 AKACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC AKA (Book 5)Suzuki, Yūto
Summary: "Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! In order to avoid expulsion from the JCC, a young...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SAKLê, Minh
Summary: When Bình fights back against a bully who makes fun of his Vietnamese heritage, he expects to be cheered as the hero. He defeated the bad guy, right? Instead, it gets him a stern warning from his vice principal and worried parents. Now he's stuck on a family trip to a silent meditation retreat. That means no talking--and no video games!--for a whole weekend. Could things possibly get any worse?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Suzuki, Yūto
Summary: "Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Sakamoto comes running to Shin's aid and clashes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 SAKAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALEJackson, Holly
Summary: "Seis amigos, un viaje y un único objetivo: sobrevivir. En las vacaciones de primavera, seis amigos deciden hacer un viaje por carretera. Ellos, una casa rodante y kilómetros por delante. Este va a ser el viaje de sus vidas. Pero cuando su vehículo sufre una avería en medio de la nada, en una zona sin señal y alejada de cualquier lugar habitado, descubrirán que no fue algo fortuito. Alguien los...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC JACGee, Kimberly
Summary: After a long storm Arlo invites his friends over to his house for a meal and makes his happy pudding to cheer them all up.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GEESuzuki, Yūto
Summary: "Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Sakamoto and X finally face off! Although Sakamoto has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023